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The G1 (Grade One) Climax professional wrestling tournament is a weeklong event held each August by the New Japan Pro Wrestling promotion. The G1 draws standing room only crowds each night, record receipt gates and generates front-page coverage on the sports sections of several of the daily newspapers in Tokyo. Though it has sometimes been held as a single-elimination tournament, it is usually (and currently) held as a round-robin, with winners from two blocks wrestling in the final to decide that year’s winner. The winner of each block is determined by a points system; two points for a victory, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss.
Length 180 minutes
Satoshi Kojima | Minoru Suzuki | Shelton Benjamin | Tetsuya Naito | Toru Yano | Hiroshi Tanahashi | Kazuchika Okada | Tomohiro Ishii | Katsuyori Shibata | Fergal Devitt | Yuji Nagata | Chad Allegra | Kota Ibushi | Yujiro Takahashi | Captain New Japan | Tomoaki Honma | Takayuki Iizuka | Lance Vance Hoyt | Nobuo Yoshihashi | Shinya Makabe